Pleasure and instruction in the Prologue of Longus’ “Daphnis and Chloe”
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Date
2009
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Wydawnictwo Poznańskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk
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Abstract
The present study attempts to demonstrate that the ancient Greek novel Daphnis and Chloe systematically
explores the problem expressed by Horace in the phrase docere et delectare, and that this
purpose is announced in the Prologue. The functions of prologues as such are briefly reviewed.
After a consideration of the prologues of the remaining ancient Greek novels, the Prologue of
Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe is analyzed line by line. Longus uses the Prologue, then, to establish
a series of dialectical tensions that operate throughout the novel, allowing it to delight and instruct
at the same time.
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ancient Greek novel, Eros, Paradox, Paideia, hunting
Citation
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 95-120
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978-83-232-2153-1